The plan to create a 50 million-tree forest in the north of England, which will provide a leafy corridor between Liverpool, Manchester, and Hull.
An ambitious project to plant 50m trees in northern England has taken a step forward after the UK government pledged £15m to the cause on Monday.
According to the Woodland Trust, which is overseeing the project, that will be enough to plant 1m trees over the coming year – 3m have already been …